About this talk
This talk, presented by Boris Baldassari from the Eclipse Foundation, introduces the Eclipse metrics program, which offers consistent activity metrics for over 450 open source projects. The session explains how these metrics, derived from platforms like GitHub and GitLab, enable the analysis of commits, issues, reviews, and community interactions while addressing challenges such as varying tools and identity mapping. The speaker discusses the use of an open source stack including GrimoireLab and OpenSearch to compute metrics and presents practical examples for analyzing project trends and contributor data. Limitations of the metrics system, such as data latency and the absence of code-level complexity metrics, are also examined, emphasizing the importance of careful interpretation to avoid misanalysis.
